Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.